Beijing Olympics 2008
- As the exclusive official video game, Beijing 2008 offers over 30 official events and national teams
- Create the atmosphere of the Olympic Host City in your own home
- Sports include: Track & Field, Aquatics, Gymnastics, Cycling, Judo, Table Tennis and Canoe-Kayak
- Online features including exhibition events and leaderboards
- New gameplay mechanics including time, rhythm, and targeting based systems
Customer Reviews
| 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:  Be prepared to ruin your controllers, By = Fun: This review is from: Beijing Olympics 2008 (Video Game) Since the Olympics are over, I got a great deal on this game and decided to give it a try. I was hoping the gameplay would be more modern than the button mashing games but it actually is worse. There are 38 games total, most are either fusturating, tiring or both. All games that involve running such as all track events and many field events require you to either button mash the X and Circle buttons or move the right and left analog sticks back an forth. Cycling requires you to rotate either the left or analog stick for around 4 minutes. After 2 days and maybe 90 minutes total of playing this game, I noticed the analog sticks on my controller were a lot more loose compared the way they were before I opened the game. I am sure if I keep playing these events, the controller will be worn down very quickly. All events that require a starting timer like running and swimming have a meter. This meter either almost always gives you a false start or you end up starting the race too late and can't catch up. Other events such as Floor Exercises use the timing of the buttons but don't give you enough notice of what button needs to be pressed. Some events like Archery are fun except that you need an almost perfect score just to advance past the first round. Overall, the game can be fun at times but most of the time you are going to be fusturated and in the process ruining your controller or controllers if you play multiplayer mode. 20 of 28 people found the following review helpful:  If you like Pina Coladas..., By gllcanon "gllcanon" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews = Fun: This review is from: Beijing Olympics 2008 (Video Game) If you like repetitive key punching, then have a couple pina coladas and you might find this entertaining. Maybe I'm too hard on it, this is best suited for a family get-together, with young kids, for setting the Olympic mood. But it really amounts little more than repetitive key punching, to the extent you wonder if you're going to brake your gamepads. Its not all that different from the Apple IIe's key-banging equivolent circa 1983, but the graphics have thankfully improved somewhat in the last 25 yrs -- too bad gameplay hasn't. I guess it's just difficult to make a good Olympics game, b/c no one ever pulls it off. 4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:  Fun Button Masher, = Fun: This review is from: Beijing Olympics 2008 (Video Game) Having grown up in the Atari age with stuff like 'Decathlon' and then later with 'Track and Field' on the NES, I think I can appreciate a button mashing sports game like this game more than alot of people can. It's not rocket science gameplay here...it all comes down to how fast you can tap the buttons, twirl the control sticks, aim, or press the right button combinations. So for today's sports game fan...it may be too 'simple.' Quite honestly, I think sports games have gotten too complex anyways. Theres too much focus on strategy and pressing 6 button combos to perform one particular move. A game like this is actually a refreshing step into retro-style gaming. For the bargain price it is now, it's a cool collection of about 50 Olympic mini-games that you can mess around with for an hour and then leave it. If you're looking for something with more depth, you're better off looking elsewhere. But if you want simple, NES-era button mashing fun (that will make your arm sore), give this one a look. It's not nearly as bad as its made out to be. It's just a matter of preference. Altho I WILL admit that the kayak controls stink... |
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